Never Settle For A Lifetime That Is Handed To You

Ari, they/them I created this sideblog so I would stop spamming my main (Butterflyari4); my sanders idea blog: jdee-lightful my Etsy: https://etsy.me/3i2E3xJ, my YouTube channel is Mochalatte-hotte my top three favs: TGWDLM, Twisted, Firebringer; I would die for Lauren Lopez; Libra, Slytherin, INTJ, nb Queer

[thirdchildart]

The Hidgens Portrait!

I was props master for The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: Reprise! I've got lots of fun behind the scenes stuff to share, gonna start with one of my favorite things I did for the show--painting this portrait 🤣

Lauren directed Will to pose, and I snapped this reference pic on my phone (post rehearsal, which is why he's only got the jacket and wig on).

Here's a few progress snapshots from my Clip Studio Paint file! I mostly used the default gouache brush to make it feel like a real oil painting!

Took me about 10 hours spread out over a couple days to paint, and then our scenic designer Colin printed it up and built that beautiful frame!!

Original idea was to have him holding his beloved assistant Alexa, but Lauren eventually decided it would telegraph the joke too early in the scene so I painted it out.

And there it is on set!! (That's also my own actual keyboard 😘 When Will says "MUSICAL THEATER" I'm the person rolling the piano on stage 🤣)

Thank you everyone for supporting the show, and i hope you enjoy the pro-shot on youtube!

I'll post more bts stuff here and there! I'm also going to do a twitch watch through of the proshot with Assistant Props Master Mari to discuss everything we did for the show!

[curtmega]

Your new favorite musical opens in 1 month.

Get your tix now! 🎟️

StarKid Productions

StarKid Productions

[dont-tell-my-mom-im-here]

What if we got married and then only played people who pissed each other off for the rest of our acting careers

[curtmega]

I made a documentary! It's 1 hour and 22 minutes long.

It's not just about The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals: Reprised, but also about what it means to return to something you made, older, wiser, with more perspective and experience than you had the first time around.

i wanted to try to capture what makes working with this group so special, the magic that happens when friends get together to make something. Plus I got to include a bunch of fun footage from the understudy performances.

if you rent it / watch it, i really hope you enjoy the proshot, but I also hope the documentary makes you feel something too!

RENT IT HERE: https://starkid.vhx.tv/products/tgwdlm-2025-pro-shot-bonus-features

[hipsternumbertwo]

BIG BEAR LAST CROWDFUND DAY 

[hipsternumbertwo]

Nerdy prudes post-college AU

[fencecollapsed]

still thinking about Big Bear and I think the absolute funniest outcome following the inevitable complete collapse of the friend group is if ONLY Deena and Stu keep hanging out. I'm partial to the idea that they never start dating but they keep hooking up and become genuine friends I think that's cute. and it means Ally loses literally all the rest of her college friends except Stu because her sister liked his dick and decided to keep him. and I think that is hilarious

[booigi-boi]

Hey guys! Big Bear is finally available for free on youtube! Angela, Jon, Lauren and Joey are in it 🙏 It's genuienly one of the best plays I've watched

[fairyquill]

[mino2aur]

everybody shut up about clubs i dont care

[sedgewick-gayble]

-- caveman about to invent the spear

[oof-i-did-it-agaaiiin]

[ups-sups]

As cool as I think I am…

[booigi-boi]

"She's not my mother!"

Cinderella's Castle collab with @art-b-y-eden 🌿 CC is very underrated and we just wanted to draw a scene 🙏 (Thanks Eden for letting me draw Preston, lol)

Close ups under cut

[spitefulwill]

So anyway while we're at it, I wanna spread a bit of positivity to a group of creators who don't mock their fans for hcs, analysis and how they view media. Starkid Productions is an amazing and creative theatre group who has done nothing but uplift fans and encourage them to take meaning out of their musicals and build off of it. All of their musicals and their creations are made because of their own love for their art instead of corporate slop, and we need more art like that especially in this day and age.

After the shitshow that was ST and the nasty digs at all fans who analyzed the show (totally outside of shipping. Just plot enjoyers. Theyre making fun of so many random fan theories rn that are deeper than their own show its crazy), I think we need to start putting our time into media made with care and respect by creators.

Starkid, I love you guys

[dungeoncrawlerdonut]

[cowardlykrow]

Emma, I’m sorry. You lost.

Collab with Dorathefake!

[perlukafarinn]

just watched the tgwdlm (2025) digital rental and i have a bunch of thoughts but one very important one about pete spankoffski (spoilers behind the cut)

i was so excited to see joey as pete in the first scene at beanie's and then he shows up again in the 'cup of roasted/poisoned coffee' scene with a friend!

or is he more than a friend???

they even share a cup???

just saying, some very interesting choices being made here. i would have loved for this to be lautski (would have lost my mind at it, actually) but obviously mariah can't play steph in this scene, so this was a pretty cute alternative.

(not that pete's long for the world in this timeline anyway, he dies like five seconds after that last screenshot 🥲)

[evastratt]

Prof. Hidgens with his giant oil painting of himself. Iconic. Gay. The life of a showgirl-esque.